Talks, Outreach, Service, and Honors
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[March 2020] While at Carleton, I spoke about my research on real-time systems for autonomous driving applications during the weekly CS Tea. This talk was tailored to students with or without experience in Computer Science (and I was happy to see students both from my Real-Time Systems course and my Intro course in attendance).
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[July 2016] I participated in a CRA-W Undergraduate Town Hall, where I talked about some of my work on accelerating cloth simulation, and gave advice on applying to graduate school in CS. I was also featured in a CRA-W Profile of Women in Computing.
For two years, I volunteered with the UNC Girls Who Code club, working with local middle- and high-school girls. In the 2016-2017 academic year, I first served as a teaching assistant, helping the girls design and build a group project that inspired them. Later in the year, I was a facilitator teaching programming concepts using Python and JavaScript. For the 2017-2018 academic year, we grew to three different clubs each week, and I served as a co-coordinator for the UNC GWC clubs.
While I was at Microsoft, I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to volunteer in local and remote high schools teaching computer science concepts with the TEALS Program. In the fall of 2013, I (remotely) taught Introduction to CS to students in the Lower Yukon School District in western Alaska. In the spring of 2014, I volunteered at a school in Federal Way, Washington, and switched to working with AP CS students in Issaquah, Washington for the 2014-2015 school year.
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I have volunteered with various events within the CS department at UNC, including helping with the UNC Science Expo, marshalling at Commencement, and helping coordinate the Graduate Women in CS annual Research Symposium.
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For the 2017-2018 academic year, I served as an officer in the Computer Science Student Association (CSSA), the graduate student association in the Computer Science Department.
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Program committee member:
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Artifact Evaluation committee member:
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Secondary reviewer for conferences/workshops: RTSS Brief Presentations 2020, ECRTS 2019, ECRTS 2018, RTNS 2017.
In April 2018, I was inducted into the Frank Porter Graham Honor Society, which recognizes outstanding service provided to the University and community by graduate and professional students at UNC-CH, as well as faculty and staff who have contributed to graduate and professional education at UNC.